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Posts Tagged journalism
Journalism Most Threatened In Middle East
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 24/Feb/2013 08:50
From Al Jazeera:
Figures compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists show an increase in the deaths of reporters covering the region, with 30 journalists killed in 2012 in Syria alone.
The period between 1992 and 2012 saw the killings of 438 journalists in the Middle East and North Africa.
Washington Times Editor Wins Journalism Award
Over the past few months Emily Miller at the Washington Times has been investigating how hard it is to get a gun permit in Washington, D.C. Even after the landmark Heller case, it has been one piece of red tape after another. She has made clear that is is easier to break the law and get a gun, than it is to follow the law and get a gun.
From Guns.com:
Emily Miller, Senior Editor for Opinion for The Washington Times, won the Clark Mollenhoff Award for Investigative Journalism because of her “Emily Gets Her Gun” report.
Narco-Censorship: Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:20
Placards with pictures of slain journalists are seen this month at a Mexico City rally by journalists protesting the violence they face. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP/Getty Images / August 7, 2010)
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship.
It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.”